American - Sociologist | June 9, 1912 - December 31, 2000
If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
Kenneth L. Pike
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Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.
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Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
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So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me.
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If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
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When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
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Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.
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The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.
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